It always shocks me that the end of term can arrive so quickly.
One second our professors are handing out syllabi and the next second the whole semester is over. Each year goes by really fast – too fast.
Erin Bamer
Argonaut
I”m still in denial that next year will be my last as a student at the University of Idaho. I”ve enjoyed my time as a student so much, it”s hard to face the fact that I won”t be one anymore in just a few short months.
The real world is scary. I”ve been a student all my life, much like the majority of students at UI. Most college students don”t fully realize how great it is to be a student.
After we all graduate, none of us will be able to go to the gym for free. We”ll need to buy a ticket to listen to an esteemed speaker give a presentation. No monthly fun events will be planned out for us on a handy dandy schedule.
These are reasons why so many people say the time students spend in college is often the best years of their lives. But funny enough, most of the people who say that aren”t in college anymore. When they were in college, they probably couldn”t wait for all of it to be over, like most students do.
The past three years I”ve heard too many students complain about how far away graduation seemed to be. Freshmen, sophomores and juniors were among those poor students developing early on-set senioritis.
I feel bad for these students, I really do. Senioritis is just a term for having a terrible attitude about education, and students who claim they have it clearly aren”t getting the most out of their experience as a college student.
I”m especially sorry for those premature cases, first or second-year students who can”t wait for commencement. Those are the people who are wasting years of their lives when they could be having fun and learning every day.
This just comes down to the mindset that attitude is everything. Students who choose to focus on all of the negative aspects of college and keep a countdown to graduation are going to be very disappointed with what life after college has to offer.
The older we get, the more responsibilities we have, but college is pretty much the last chance people have to behave like a young person. In college, we all still have the excuse to be childish, because hey, it”s college. It doesn”t matter how old someone is after they graduate, an employer isn”t going to care.
The real world means paying for everything. It means extra pressure to figure out the rest of our lives. I”m happy to stay in my bubble as a student for as long as I possibly can.
I have never, and will never come down with senioritis. I like to learn. I like being a student. If I could, I would not hesitate it to make it my full-time career. Unfortunately, that”s not how life works, and I”ll have to deal with this fact sooner than I would like to.
I am determined to be positive and have fun in my remaining time at UI. This way, I know that I won”t be an old woman filled with regret about how I wasted my years as a young woman.
Erin Bamer can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @ErinBamer